Tim Curry leads an all-star comedy cast in a mad dash to discover who the killer is before the police arrive and arrest everybody in the film from director Jonathan Lynn (My Cousin Vinny). It’s loosely based on the popular board game, meaning the characters have the same name as the playing pieces — Professor Plum (Christopher Lloyd), Colonel Mustard (Martin Mull), Miss Scarlet (Leslie Ann Warren), etc. — and the iconic murder weapons – the candlestick, the rope, the gun and more – are there for them to wield when the time comes. Anyone who played the game, though, will tell you it’s nowhere near as silly as the movie, which is little more than a series of slapstick routines held together by a lot of screaming and running around. Still, there isn’t a cast better suited for that kind of behavior, and each of them gets their chance to shine. Curry looks like he is having a lot of fun playing the butler Wadsworth, especially when he gets to put the other characters in their place with a well-timed verbal shot.
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